Improvement in horse and cattle pokes



B. PAGE. Hore and Caftle Pokes.

No. 133,334, Patented Nov. 26,1872.

AM. PHOTD-LITHUGHAPH/C CQMYUJSBORNES PROCESS) U ITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

BENJAMIN PAGE, OF ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE AND CATTLE POKES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 133,334, dated November26, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN PAGE, of St. Joseph county and State ofIndiana, have invented certain Improvements in Horse or Cattle Pokes, ofwhich the following is a specification:

A represents an ordinary bow of suflicient size to fit the neck of ananimal. B represents a Wedge-shaped board, the front end being fastenedto the lower ends of'bowA by means of an iron or wooden pin, andprojecting backward and under the throat of the animal, and ofsufficient width to fill the lower ends of the bow, and about one footin length. 0 represents a poke-stick fastened into the center of thefront end of the board B. D represents an iron pin, through the end ofthe iron pin,- running through the lower ends of bow A and the frontendof board B aforesaid, the pin D having a right-angle bend at one end,and this end fastened in one side of how A aforesaid, so as to hold thepin running through the ends of the same stationary. This bow fit tingreasonably close to the neck of the animal, as the head is raised theboard B will cause the poke-stick O to be thrown forward,

thus preventing his jumping; and'as his head The Wedge-shaped boa-rd B,in connection with the bow A, the iron pin D, the poke-stick G,substantially and for the purpose above described.

BENJAMIN PAGE.

Witnesses:

JOHN F. KIRBY, B. WALL.

